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The next hundred pages or so will offer you yet another discussion about software systems and how to develop them. Much like scores of other books on the shelves, perhaps. But this one is different.
Between $81 billion and $140 billion per year is wasted in the United States alone on failed projects and overdue deliveries.
Chaos Report 1995 (The Standish Group)
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Bronzite, M. (2000). Introduction. In: System Development. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-0469-8_1
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